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So now that we've got the neck started, we're ready to really stretch this and make it tall
and thin. It requires gentle touch and patience. If you try to do this too quickly, you're
going to end up tearing this apart. So I've stretched it just a little bit taller and
now I'm going to get both of my hands very wet, and firmly and evenly push my hands together
just to make this neck a little bit thinner. And as I do that, it's also going to make
the wall thicker because it's bringing all the clay into the center there. So, I'm going
to need to pull again in order to get this thinned down. It also gives me a little bit
more height.
And once I've got the thinness and the height that I'm looking for, I'm going to go back
to my curved rib and really smooth this neck out to make it be a nice continuous curve.
Now I've got my left hand holding the rim. That's just to keep it from wobbling back
and forth because that's a place where you're really going to start to see that it's difficult
to keep the torque out. So, if you use that for just a little bit of stability, it helps.
And finally, you're going to want to take your hard rib, press it up against the bat
and move toward the pot, keeping this at a very low angle because I want to go ahead
and cut most of the clay out from the bottom there. That's going to give me a nice good
*** that I'm going to be able to press down on to the bottom piece when I put them
together, which is what I'm going to show you next.